Holiday shopping doesn’t have to be chore! These fun and quirky Martin County shops sell local art that will surprise and delight all of your loved ones. Gumbo Limbo Coastal Chic Located on Osceola Street in Historic Downtown Stuart, Gumbo Limbo Coastal Chic is the place to go if you are seeking unique and crowd pleasing...

Spending the holidays in South Florida? These Martin County properties will make you feel like you’re right at home for the holidays.   Hutchinson Shores Resort & Spa This brand new resort is Hutchinson Island’s first new luxury property in over 20 years! Sleep in the lap of luxury after your Christmas dinner in one of...

By Terry Gibson Sailfishing offers a challenging, intimate and incredibly exciting connection to a unique intersection of magnificent ecosystems here along the Treasure Coast. For many anglers, including me, this connection inspired a lifelong obsession with waters and habitats that give rise to “Sailfish Alley,” which runs from about Fort Pierce down past Stuart—the Sailfish...

By design, the county’s reef system lures marine life, anglers and divers. By Terry Gibson Since its inception in the 1970s, Martin County’s award-winning artificial reef program has deployed more than 95 outstandingly productive sites for divers and fishermen. That’s a lot of reefs—more than most anglers and divers get to explore in a lifetime...

Depending on who you ask, Pecks Lake is either overlooked, or a well-kept secret. By Terry Gibson About ten years ago, my longtime friend and teacher, the marine ecologist Dr. Ken Lindeman, called me to ask a most important favor. Ken’s two older sons, Brian and Eric–teenagers then—were in the process of earning their SCUBA...

By Terry Gibson Martin County offers some of the best and most diverse fly-fishing opportunities in the state. Thanks to the area’s unique confluence of estuaries, nearshore reefs and offshore reefs–all connected by currents–you can catch more saltwater species that you can shake a fly rod at. You just need a little advice about where...

By Terry Gibson In a concerted effort to convince my girlfriend (now wife) Teresa to move here to Martin County, I took her on a series of “dates” that included the area’s most beautiful natural resources. So I started with an early morning snorkeling trip to Bathtub Beach, an utterly unique intersection of beautiful beach,...

By Terry Gibson One of the things I love most about living in Martin County, and raising a family here, is that there are so many action-packed types of angling here perfect for introducing kids to saltwater fishing. In fact, this area boasts one of the most exhilarating and rewarding saltwater fishing experiences in the...